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HITTTTERER. ELECTRIC HAIR DRIER.

Patented Oct. 26, 1897.

.NITED TATES HEINRICH FIITTERER, OF DUSSELDORF, GERMANY.

ELECTRIC HAIR-DRI ER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 592,245, dated October 26, 1897.

Application filed April 1 3 1 8 9'7.

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, HEINRICH FUTTERER, a subject of the German Emperor, residing at Dusseldorf, Germany, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Electric I-lair-Driers, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to an apparatus for drying the hair by means of an electric current in such a Way that a thorough and uniformdrying is eifected without any injury to the hair.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is aface view of my improved electric hair-drier Fig. 2, a side view thereof; Fig. 3,'a detail face view, partly in section, thereof; Fig. 4:, a cross-section througha modification of combplate 10; Fig. 5, a cross-section on line A B, Fig. 3; Fig. 6, a detail of tooth-z, and Fig. 7 a sectional elevation of a modification of the drier.

The drieris composed,essentially,of a combplate 19, adapted to be heated by means of an incandescent platinum wire (:1 or similar body, which is connected to the line-Wires Z l, that lead to a suitable source of electric energy. The wire 01 is embedded in an insulating-layer a, which when the wire is rendered incandescent will become heated and transmit the heat to a pair of face-plates b, that incloserthe layer a.

The plate Z7 may be attached to a stand or chair-back D, Fig. 7, when it will serve to dry the hair spread upon it, or it may be provided with a handle g, Figs. 1 and 2, that inclose the wires Z Z. The comb-plate p is made in the form of a slide that engages flanged guidepieces 19, constituting the frame of the apparatus,and thus receives theheat from plate b, against which it is placed. Teeth 2 project from the face of plate 19, and by making such plate removable and interchangeable, as described, it may be readily replaced by a plate fierial N0. '6s2,o22. (No model.)

having teeth of different dimensions,or placed at greater or less distances apart.

In Fig. 4 I have shown the plate p made of .a double thickness and inclosing a non-conducting layer 19 by which construction the volume of heat radiated is reduced but, if desired, the same result maybe accomplished by introducing any suitable resistance into the conducting-wires. In order to prevent the points of the teeth from becoming unduly heated, I provide the same with two perforations z .2 Fig. 6, placed at right angles to one another, so that the heat-conducting body is interrupted from the root toward the point of the teeth.

The face-plates b may be made fiat or the teeth 2 maybe secured to the plates b directly in place of being secured to the additional plates 19, in which case the plates 19 will constitute the comb-plates.

The apparatus is used similar to a comb, so that the heat transmitted to the teeth from the incandescent wire will serve to quickly and uniformly dry thehair.

What I claim is 1. A hair-drier composed of a frame, a sliding plate removably secured thereto, and an electric WlI'G'fOl heating the sliding plate, substantially as specified.

, 2. A hair-drier composed of a frame, an insulating-layer,a face-plate and a sliding combplate held by the frame, and an electric wire embedded within the insulating-layer and adapted to heat the sliding comb-plate, substantially as specified. i In testimony whereof I have signed this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

HEINRICH TERER Witnesses:

ERNEST ANDRE, WILLIAM ESSENWEIN. 

